SVT Working Meeting

15 Dec 2025, 12:00 → 19 Dec 2025, 14:00 Europe/London

Fisher Room (Denys Wilkinson Building, Dept of Physics, University of Oxford )

A working meeting of the international ePIC SVT community to advance progress in the design and prototyping of the ePIC SVT.

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Monday 15 December

12:00 → 13:00 Lunch

13:00 → 15:00 Session 1: RDOs and Cables

Goal:
- Establish envelopes for FIBs and CBs
- Identify what work to be done by who on the SIB and SCB

Convener: James Julian Glover (University of Birmingham (UK))

13:00 FIB and CB design

Speaker: James Julian Glover (University of Birmingham (UK))

13:30 Power cables (IBs to PP)

Speakers: Georg Viehhauser (member@ox.ac.uk;staff@ox.ac.uk), James Julian Glover (University of Birmingham (UK))

14:00 Fibre harnesses

Speakers: Ernst Sichtermann (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Dr Joachim Schambach (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

14:30 FPC - TBC

15:00 → 15:30 Coffee

15:30 → 17:00 Session 1: RDOs and Cables

Goal:
- Establish envelopes for FIBs and CBs
- Identify what work to be done by who on the SIB and SCB

Convener: James Julian Glover (University of Birmingham (UK))

15:30 SIB and SCB design

Speakers: James Julian Glover (University of Birmingham (UK)), Dr Joachim Schambach (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

16:00 Size and position of SIB/FIB/SCB for IB: open questions

Speakers: Rosario Turrisi (member@cern.ch), Rosario Turrisi (INFN-Padova)

17:00 → 17:45 Discussion of topics of the day

Tuesday 16 December

09:00 → 10:30 Session 2: Sensors and AncASIC

• General Update on ASIC progress
• Update on LAS agreement? Deadline?
• Input to simulation:
• Hit Rates
• Yield
• Side-meeting to discuss initial more detailed plans on the LAS

Conveners: Iain Sedgwick (UKRI-STFC), Joao De Melo (BNL)

09:00 AncASIC Overview (Powering)

Speaker: Iain Sedgwick (UKRI-STFC)

09:30 AncASIC Overview (AncBrain and Interfacing)

Should include block level overview of the AncASIC
Prioritisation (up to MPW3 and afterwards)
Commands and Errors

Speakers: Dr Grzegorz Deptuch (BNL), Md Arif Iqbal (Brookhaven National Laboratory), Prafull Purohit (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

10:00 MPW1 Testing Update @ BNL

Speaker: Niccolo Gallice (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee

11:00 → 12:30 Session 2: Sensor & AncASIC

• General Update on ASIC progress
• Update on LAS agreement? Deadline?
• Input to simulation:
• Hit Rates
• Yield
• Side-meeting to discuss initial more detailed plans on the LAS

Conveners: Iain Sedgwick (UKRI-STFC), Joao De Melo (BNL)

11:00 MPW1 Testing Update @LBL

Speaker: Shirsendu Nanda (Other@lbl.gov;Guest@lbl.gov)

11:25 MPW2 Testing Update

Speaker: Andrew Hill (staff@stfc.ac.uk)

11:50 EIC-LAS: Power Reduction and Design Challenges

Speaker: Joao De Melo (BNL)

12:15 Open Questions

Speakers: Iain Sedgwick (UKRI-STFC), Joao De Melo (BNL)

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 15:00 Session 3: QC and testing

• Reports on testing that does not fit elsewhere.
• MOSAIX/AncBrain emulators? RDO tests?
• The goal for this session is to review the draft of the QC procedures for modules and RDO boards in view of having the ITP documents for these ready for the tracking PDR2 at the end of January.
• Delineate overall QC plan

Conveners: LAURA GONELLA (University of Trieste), Laura Gonella (INFN Trieste)

13:30 Sensors wafer probing procedures and status

Speaker: Stefano Caregari

14:00 Sensors testing, commissioning and operation SW

Speaker: Gregor Eberwein (MIT)

14:30 AncBrain hardware emulator

Speaker: Zhengwei Xue (Other@lbl.gov;Member@lbl.gov;Staff@lbl.gov)

15:00 → 15:30 Coffee

15:30 → 17:00 Session 3: QC and testing

• Reports on testing that does not fit elsewhere.
• MOSAIX/AncBrain emulators? RDO tests?
• The goal for this session is to review the draft of the QC procedures for modules and RDO boards in view of having the ITP documents for these ready for the tracking PDR2 at the end of January.
• Delineate overall QC plan

Conveners: LAURA GONELLA (University of Trieste), Laura Gonella (INFN Trieste)

15:30 QC development plans

Speakers: LAURA GONELLA (University of Trieste), Laura Gonella (INFN Trieste)

15:50 Modules

Speaker: Marcello Borri (staff@stfc.ac.uk)

16:20 RDO boards

Speaker: James Julian Glover (University of Birmingham (UK))

17:00 → 18:00 Discussion of topics of the day

Wednesday 17 December

09:00 → 10:30 Session 4: Powering & Grounding

Goal: Schematics of system architecture for IB, OB, and disks (incl. FIBs/SIBS and control boards, coupling to structures, coupling capacitors, ground connections, sense lines etc.)

Conveners: James Julian Glover (University of Birmingham (UK)), Dr Joachim Schambach (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

09:00 Grounding scheme

Speaker: James Julian Glover (University of Birmingham (UK))

09:30 OB system architecture

Speakers: Iain Sedgwick (UKRI-STFC), James Julian Glover (University of Birmingham (UK)), Marcello Borri (staff@stfc.ac.uk)

10:00 Disk system architecture

Speakers: Ernst Sichtermann (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Nicole Apadula

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee

11:00 → 12:30 Session 5: Slow control and DAQ

Convener: Dr Joachim Schambach (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 15:00 Session 6: Global mechanics & integration

Goals:
- Updated SVT and envelope model
- Integration sequence

Conveners: Andreas Werner Jung (member@cern.ch), Ben Denos (Purdue University)

13:30 Current status of SVT design and envelope model

Speaker: Ben Denos (Purdue University)

14:15 Interfaces to ePIC

Speakers: Andreas Werner Jung (member@cern.ch), Sushrut Karmarkar (Purdue University (USA))

15:00 → 15:30 Coffee

15:30 → 17:00 Session 6: Global mechanics & integration

Goals:
- Updated SVT and envelope model
- Integration sequence

Conveners: Andreas Werner Jung (member@cern.ch), Ben Denos (Purdue University)

15:30 Beam pipe integration

16:00 Cone design and interfaces

Speaker: Joseph Silber (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)

16:30 Integration sequence

Speaker: Ben Denos (Purdue University)

17:00 → 18:00 Discussion of topics of the day

18:30 → 21:30 Meeting Dinner

St. Giles House

Thursday 18 December

09:00 → 10:30 Session 7: PDR editing session

Convener: Ernst Sichtermann (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee

11:00 → 12:30 Session 7: Simulation

Conveners: Samuel Austin Henry, Samuel Henry (University of Oxford), Shujie Li (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 15:00 Session 8: Cooling and humidity management

Convener: Georg Viehhauser (member@ox.ac.uk;staff@ox.ac.uk)

15:00 → 15:30 Coffee

15:30 → 17:00 Session 8: Cooling and humidity management

Convener: Georg Viehhauser (member@ox.ac.uk;staff@ox.ac.uk)

17:00 → 18:00 Discussion of topics of the day

Friday 19 December

09:00 → 10:30 Session 8:: Subsystem mechanics and & integration

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee

11:00 → 12:30 Session 8:: Subsystem mechanics and & integration

12:30 → 13:00 Meeting close-out

13:00 → 14:00 Lunch